Birth control advocacy organization; Birth control research organization. Records include reports, data, publications, administrative and financial records, some correspondence. They document especially well the efforts of a fact-finding organization determined to disseminate as widely as possible the data it collects so as to help shape policy to increase access to reproductive health services, and to "to ensure the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health for all people worldwide." They also include the papers of Jacqueline E. Darroch and Christopher Tietze. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to you.]

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